Word: colorado
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...Lowell House blockade makes liberal demonstrations like the Jim Crow Commencement look all the more like the insanity it is. Students learned firsthand that the University administration and its cops are not our friends. As thousands of students at Cornell, Columbia, UC Berkeley, University of Colorado, UMass Amherst, Lufts and the University of Iowa have learned, taking a stand against racism in South Africa and racist terror at home means attacks from the ruling class and their cops. At UC Berkeley over a month ago, Guillermo Bermudez, a Hispanic student and a member of the SYL, helped initiate a united...
...repeated phrase "Roger, Houston," uttered with a kind of professional jauntiness, has always sounded reassuringly familiar. But as plans for defense-oriented space missions begin to take shape, it is apparent that future military astronauts communicating with ground control may punctuate their messages with the more mellifluous "Roger, Colorado." The reason is the Air Force's $1.15 billion, 640-acre Consolidated Space Operations Center, now rising on the barren prairie just outside of Colorado Springs...
...Shultz, was awarded the contract) will be finished by the end of 1985, enabling CSOC to begin taking charge of satellite missions. By the 1990s ground control for military shuttles would shift from Houston to CSOC. To add to all this activity orbiting around CSOC, the Pentagon has selected Colorado Springs as the home of the U.S. Space Command, which will direct all defense-oriented space activities, including those at CSOC. This would make the once sleepy town at the base of Pikes Peak the military space capital...
...once reviled "Company" known as the CIA. Yet even as the recruiting figures are rising--the rate of job inquiries has more than doubled since the early 1970s--so are protests over the presence of CIA representatives on campus. Last week 450 demonstrators were arrested at the University of Colorado in Boulder as they attempted to disrupt the interviews...
...Jersey failure provided more evidence for politicians who are demanding a closer federal watch on the largely unregulated government- securities market. Two House Democrats, John Dingell of Michigan and Timothy Wirth of Colorado, plan to introduce a bill this week that would bring some 200 dealers under the supervision of a panel to be called the Public Securities Rulemaking Board...